Description

Also know as Nurseryfish, Red Sea Cardinalfish, Two-banded Cardinalfish, Twobelt Cardinalfish.

Found sheltering during the day, over shallow silty inner reefs, dispersing at night to feed.
They feed nocturnally on small benthic invertebrates and zooplankton.
Length - 14cm
Depth - 0-15m
Widespread Indo-West Pacific

Males incubate their eggs inside their mouths, as the egg masses increase in size they can be found with wide open mouths where they shift the eggs around to aerate the egg masses. Ref: https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Apogonichthyoides-pseudotaeniatus.html